Entries Containing All of the Phrases «macon county» AND «georgia»

By David Seibert, January 17, 2011

Dames Ferry Marker

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1 ► Georgia, Monroe County, Dames Ferry — 102-9 — Dames Ferry —

In 1808, widow Mary Green Dame and her six children settled in Jones County. Two sons, George and John, builders by trade, built a house on the east side of the Ocmulgee River. Zachariah Booth owned and operated the first ferry here. It was . . . — — Map (db m10087) HM

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2 ► Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee Institute — 6 — Jessie Parkhurst Guzman — The Tuskegee Civil Rights and Historic Trail —

Jessie Parkhurst Guzman (1898-1996) was born in Savannah, Georgia, educated at Howard University (BA, 1919) and Columbia University (MA, 1924), and worked at Tuskegee University for over forty years. During Guzman's time at Tuskegee University, she . . . — — Map (db m139885) HM

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3 ► Alabama, Russell County, Seale — Early Russell County and the Town of Seale — Creek Heritage Trail —

Russell County was one of several counties created by the Alabama legislature in December, 1832 from land that had been part of the Creeks' ancestral homeland. The community of Girard (modern Phenix City) along the Chattahoochee River became the . . . — — Map (db m111609) HM

4 ► Georgia, Bibb County, Macon — Hatcher-Groover-Schwartz House —

This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m186677) HM

5 ► Georgia, Macon County, Montezuma — Confederate Soldiers Monument —

Macon County holds in proud and grateful remembrance her brave and loyal sons who preferred death to betrayal of her principles. No nation rose so fair and white or fell so pure of crime. Erected by the Phil Cook Chapter U.D.C Jan 19, 1911 . . . — — Map (db m228023) WM

6 ► Georgia, Macon County, Oglethorpe — Lanier/Miona Springs —

Upon the chartering of Macon County, by an Act approved December 29, 1837, the town of Lanier was made the first county seat. Until 1854 it was a bustling center for many of the earliest settlers in the county including Georgia Senator and Brig. . . . — — Map (db m40140) HM

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7 ► Alabama, Bullock County, Union Springs — Union Springs, Alabama —

In the early 1800s, settlers coming from the Carolinas and Georgia received land grants and some purchased land from the Indians. They settled and cleared the forest for new farms and plantations in what would become a newly formed State of Alabama . . . — — Map (db m83258) HM

8 ► Florida, Bay County, Panama City — F-315 — Robert Lee McKenzie's Home and Office —

(Front Side): The McKenzie House is a large two-story clapboard frame dwelling built in the Dutch Colonial style typical of the turn of the century houses still standing in Northern Michigan. It was built 1909 by Belle Booth who married R. . . . — — Map (db m8155) HM

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9 ► Tennessee, Blount County, Tallassee — 1E-37 — Early Tollgate — Reported permanently removed

The chimney nearby marks the location of a tollhouse on the Tennessee River Turnpike, which operated in 1829. Connecting Blount County, Tenn., with Macon County, N.C., across the Great Smokies, it was an important route in livestock commerce . . . — — Map (db m264840) HM

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10 ► Alabama, Butler County, Greenville — Butler County — A County Older Than The State —

Side 1 Created in 1819 by Act of Alabama Territorial Legislature from lands ceded by the Creek Indian Nation by the Treaty of Fort Jackson, 1814. Named for Captain William Butler, soldier of Creek Indian War, 1813-14, early settler . . . — — Map (db m70755) HM

11 ► Florida, Nassau County, American Beach — F-1129 — The Guzman House — Jessie Parkhurst Guzman - Ignacio L. Guzman —

Side 1 The Guzman house is a one-story masonry frame Vernacular style home. It has an irregular plan protected by a side facing gable roof with a front gable extension. The exterior walls are covered with wood shake shingles. The fenestration . . . — — Map (db m219579) HM

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12 ► Alabama, Barbour County, Louisville — The Opening of the Second Phase of the Second Creek War — Creek Heritage Trail —

The Second Creek War began in May of 1836 when a portion of area Creeks, angry at their treatment in the wake of the Treaty of Cusseta and in desperate circumstances, struck out against American settlements. A series of small battles occurred . . . — — Map (db m111618) HM

13 ► Alabama, Macon County, Fort Davis — Fort Davis Railroad Depot / Fort Davis Community — Macon County —

Fort Davis Railroad Depot Macon County The first Fort Davis Railroad Depot was constructed in 1892, which was approximately the time that the Savannah-Americus-Montgomery Railroad came through the community. The current building was . . . — — Map (db m161039) HM

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14 ► Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, South Downtown — “Expelled Because of Color” —

Expelled Because of Color” is dedicated to the memory of the 33 Black state legislators who were elected, yet expelled from the Georgia House because of their color in 1868. The cinder block forms at the base of the sculpture symbolize the . . . — — Map (db m130191) HM

15 ► Kentucky, Hardin County, Elizabethtown — The Battle for Elizabethtown — December 1862 —

"The Parrott gun was placed in the pike; it was opened as soon as the last message from Colonel Smith was received; and, as suddenly as if its flash had ignited them, Palmer's four guns roared out from the hill on the left of the road, about six . . . — — Map (db m170819) HM

16 ► North Carolina, Macon County, Franklin — Q-36 — Pottery Clay —

Wedgwood potteries, England, used several tons of clay taken in 1767 from a nearby pit by Thomas Griffiths, a South Carolina planter. — — Map (db m187801) HM

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